GHSA-mqr2-w7wj-jjgr

mysql2 cache poisoning vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2024-21507

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	mysql2	< 3.9.3	3.9.3

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Versions of the package mysql2 before 3.9.3 are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation through the `keyFromFields` function, resulting in cache poisoning. An attacker can inject a colon `:` character within a value of the attacker-crafted key.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21507 advisory
https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/pull/2424 web
https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/commit/0d54b0ca6498c823098426038162ef10df02c818 web
https://blog.slonser.info/posts/mysql2-attacker-configuration web
https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2 package
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-MYSQL2-6591300 web